# garza
## Asturian
### Noun

garza f (plural garces)
* heron (bird)

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* garcia (northeast)
* gharsa (eye dialect)
* garça (reintegrationist)

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese garça (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a substrate language, probably Hispano-Celtic or Celtiberian *cárcia, from Proto-Celtic *korkiyos; akin to Welsh crychydd, Breton kerc'heiz.
Cognate with Spanish garza, Mirandese garça, Asturian garza, Portuguese garça, and (possibly) Catalan garsa.

### Pronunciation

* (standard) IPA: [ˈɡaɾθɐ]
* (dialectal, Western) IPA: [ˈħaɾs̺ɐ]

### Noun

garza f (plural garzas)
* heron
    Synonym: ghanza

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “garça”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “garça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “garza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “garza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “garza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “garza”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡar.d͡za/
* Rhymes: -ardza
* Hyphenation: gàr‧za

### Etymology 1

Probably a semi-learned borrowing from French gaze, from Arabic غَزَّة (ḡazza, “Gaza”), a city associated with silk production.

#### Noun

garza f (plural garze)
* gauze (fabric)
* (medicine) gauze (fabric used as surgical dressing)
    Synonym: garza idrofila

#### Further reading

* garza$^1$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish garza.

#### Noun

garza f (plural garze)
* name of several species of heron:
** Synonym of airone bianco maggiore
** Synonym of airone cenerino
** Synonym of airone rosso

##### Derived terms

* garzaia
* garzetta
* sgarza

#### Further reading

* garza$^2$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

garza
* inflection of garzare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Hispano-Celtic *cárcia; akin to Welsh crychydd, Breton kerc'heiz.
Cognate with Galician garza, Mirandese garça, Asturian garza, Portuguese garça and (possibly) Catalan garsa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /ˈɡaɾθa/ [ˈɡaɾ.θa]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈɡaɾsa/ [ˈɡaɾ.sa]
* Audio (Spain):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾθa
* Rhymes: -aɾsa
* Syllabification: gar‧za

### Noun

garza f (plural garzas)
* heron

#### Derived terms

* garceta
* garcilla
* garza azulada
* garza blanca
* garza bruja
* garza ceniza
* garza dorada
* garza ganadera
* garza imperial
* garza morena
* garza real
* garza rojiza
* garza silbadora

### Adjective

garza f
* feminine singular of garzo

### Further reading

* “garza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10